As As predicted, Apple is in talks with three banks in India about introducing Apple Pay services there later this year, a according to a Bloomberg report.  This could give the company an even bigger footprint in India than its payment services have already built elsewhere. The move matters for many reasons. Consider this: Apple Pay is already far

Perplexity says its new Perplexity Computer service can perform complex, multi-step tasks on behalf of human users, by organizing the tasks that are needed and creating the software agents required to fulfill the process. Users begin by describing their desired outcome, the company said, then, “Perplexity Computer breaks it into tasks and subtasks, creating sub-agents

Global PC and smartphone sales are expected to fall by more than 10% this year, according to analysts, as hyperscaler investment in AI data centers fuels a memory shortage. PC shipments will fall 10.4% during 2026 compared to 2025, as the constrained memory supply leads to higher prices, according to Gartner. IDC predicts a slightly

Stateless AI, in which a model offers one-off answers without context from previous sessions, can be helpful in the short-term but lacking for more complex, multi-step scenarios. To overcome these limitations, OpenAI is introducing what it is calling, naturally, “stateful AI.” The company has announced that it will soon offer a stateful runtime environment in

The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over whether private AI makers can limit how the US military uses their systems. Calling Anthropic “Leftwing nut jobs,” President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was

The machine that will make tomorrow’s AI chips possible has just been declared ready for mass production – and the clock for the industry’s next leap has officially started. ASML, the Dutch company that holds a global monopoly on commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment, confirmed this week that its High-NA EUV tools have crossed the

Banks are testing a new type of artificial intelligence, like agentic AI, that does more than scan for keywords or follow preset rules. Instead of relying only on static alerts, some trading desks are beginning to use systems designed to reason through patterns in real time and flag conduct that may need human review. Bloomberg

Many organisations are eroding the foundations of business – productivity, competitiveness, and efficiency. This is happening due to poor implementation of human-AI collaboration, according to cloud data and AI consultancy, Datatonic. The company says in the next phase of enterprise AI, success will come from carefully-governed and designed AI that works alongside humans in “human-in-the-loop

Improving trust in agentic AI for finance workflows remains a major priority for technology leaders today. Over the past two years, enterprises have rushed to put automated agents into real workflows, spanning customer support and back-office operations. These tools excel at retrieving information, yet they often struggle to provide consistent and explainable reasoning during multi-step

Multitude Insights has raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand its intelligence platform for law enforcement agencies. The round was led by Primary Venture Partners, with participation from Commonweal Ventures, Counterview Capital, VSC Ventures, NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, Alumni Ventures, E62 Ventures, and Craig P. Abod of Carahsoft Technology. The company did not